"We're not a democracy."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

Nigel Rees, British Author

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

Life

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

Time

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

Books

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

Fact

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

People

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

Media

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

"This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."